NewCare's Ambitious Plans Put
Spotlight on Its Chairman's Past

ATLANTA -- Christopher Brogdon, who turned a tiny nursing-home operation into a sprawling retirement-care company, is trying to work another miracle.

Earlier this year, Mr. Brogdon, president and chairman of Atlanta-based Retirement Care Associates Inc., accepted an invitation to become a major shareholder and director of NewCare Health Corp., a nursing-home chain formerly of Largo, Fla., that has spent most of its life in critical...